Page 419 - Missile Program News Today

Latest updates on this topic.

Latest updates on this topic.

>> yeah, it has those in south korea uneasy. it has the rest of the world incredibly uneasy. just after 5:00 there in seoul. many thanks to our paula newton for that live report. lets bring in daniel pinkston, he is an international relations scholar at troy university and has extensively studied north korea and its missile program. the south koreans identified this latest missile as the hwasong 14, but the north koreans came out and said it was the hwasong 15, a missile weve never heard of be...

Earnest in increasing the range and the capabilities and characteristics of their missile force. >> reporter: kims regime has tested missiles this year at a furious pace. this makes 23 missiles launched in 16 tests since february. but the north koreans had been fairly quiet recently, not testing a missile in more than two months. so why now? >> this could be a reaction to political events like being put on the u.s. list of terror sponsors or recent condemnations of north korea. it could be shapi...

Latest updates on this topic.

Later this week. you can bet north korea is still on the agenda. >> thank you so much for that. lets talk more about all of this about cnn political analyst josh rogin. joining him julian as wezelizer. theres been progress made given the north korean nuclear threat. heres what he said about some success. >> north korea is a worldwide threat that requires worldwide action. we call on every responsible nation, including china and russia, to demand that the north korean regime end its nuclear wea...

>> reporter: the trump speech has not gone well. president rouhani came almost and blasted president trump saying his speech was ignorant, full of lies, that he has no understanding of iran or international agreements. he responded to the criticism he made of the revolutionary guard saying the government if the strongly supports the revolutionary guard and that they will ramp up their missile program in order to defend themselves here. but rouhani also went on to say as long as it benefits irans...

Latest updates on this topic.

Nuclear weapons program. mr. president, you said you were going to rip the iran deal off. you called it the worst ever. >> i may do that. i may do that. the deal is terrible. so what we have done is through the certification process well have congress take a look at it and i may very well do that. >> reporter: before the president spoke secretary of state rex tillerson had been working the phones to reassure european allies who are firmly committed to the iran deal. >> lets get to jon karl at th...

Binary choice. i think his remarks were an exhibit of his frustration at certain points of being forced into a corner by advisers and wanting to have an array of options that give him more flexibility. >> can you get flexibility? i get your point of a lot of people need to leave the old rules behind. some people think thats not presidential and not the way obama or bush or clinton would have done it. forget that. there is a special place for those who shed blood for us. hes the commander in chie...